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Choking – underperforming under stress.
Many athletes, entertainers and others, who must execute their skill flawlessly, argue that they have a positive image of what they’re trying to accomplish. And… they probably do! But when it’s time for them to act in public, they often fall short of their best. Having positive thoughts and a good mental picture of a
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Perfecting Parenting
The popular television series The Dog Whisperer hosted by Cesar Milan shows him working with difficult and sometimes dangerous dogs. Cesar says “he rehabilitates dogs and trains their owners.” Cesar is not only insightful with dogs, but he’s a superb people psychologist as well. In most cases dogs learn bad behavior because their owners either
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Cutting back doesn’t work!
How hypnosis works for weight loss. Bob Crow and Atlanta, GA hypnotherapist describes some of the common pitfalls of dieting.
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All Sales Final!
How using hypnosis to improve communication and interaction will improve a marriage.
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Bad Karma or bad choices?
Frequently people facing difficult circumstances in life, whether it is financial, career, relationships or legal, often cite the reason for their problems as “bad karma, bad luck or bad breaks.” When they attribute their problems to bad karma, they’re overlooking the fact that they initially made a choice or choices putting things into motion that
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Actually, in many ways, Virtual Lap Band is superior to the surgical lap band procedure!
This blog details the differences and similarities between Virtual Hypnotic Lap Band or Gastric Bypass and the surgical version.
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Anxiety
Anxiety in all of its forms responds incredibly well to hypnotherapy. Anxiety, along with making life generally unenjoyable and unpleasant, can cause severe physical symptoms, bring on various real ailments and even attack the immune system. In the extreme, some are so overcome with anxiety that they no longer will leave their house. It has
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome – IBS
With some victims, the pain is often absolutely excruciating. The cramping can cause them to curl up in a ball on their bedroom floor, their office, in a meeting, maybe even in an airliner, a hotel lobby or a restaurant. It can be so intense that the individual doesn’t care if other people see them or not.
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Confidence!!!
There’s no component in the realm of human endeavor that’s as essential to success and happiness as confidence. Confidence gives one power. Confidence gives one strength. Confidence enables one to act with authority. Although ability and intelligence are important, when one lives without confidence, the results will be disappointing. Even genius without confidence will always
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You knew that smoking is dangerous – but did you know how really dangerous it is?
Stop smoking with hypnosis is described in this post. Hypnosis and hypnotherapy connects you to your subconscious mind where the habit resides
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Disgusted with dieting?
How often have you had a “what’s the use” day? What happened was that you messed up and ate what you shouldn’t have, but you tell yourself that tomorrow, you will really get back on track. Tomorrow?” Tomorrow is such a wonderful convenience because action doesn’t need to be taken today, it can wait until
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Disconnect
There is a personality disorder that is called disconnect. It manifests itself in several ways. In the extreme, we have a Columbine or a Jeffery Dalmer. Those people had no regard for the enormous damage and hurt that they were perpetrating upon others. They were disconnected and had lost their moral compass. Those that exhibit
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You can’t get the change – if you don’t want to make the changes!
There isn’t a day that goes by that someone doesn’t come into my office wanting some kind of change in their life – reinventing themselves to get a job, a better job, to have better personal relationships, to move past limiting thinking and fears, or to stopping smoking or to lose that excess weight permanently.
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Ocean cruises and being thin and trim!
“We just have to go on the cruise. We’ve been planning this cruise for years with Bill and Marie. It will just break their hearts if we don’t go with them.” Well, if in fact it does break their hearts; in all likelihood they will survive it. But are you just be avoiding again, the
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We’ve lost him Piedmont… how a confident voice saved my life!
It was a nice summer day. I had gone roller blading for the very first time in my life at Piedmont Park in Atlanta Georgia. I was not an intuitive skater – in fact I was not even a poor skater, I was somewhere beneath that. I was descending a long hill when a toddler,
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The Comfort Zone?
“Pop” psychologists have been using the term the comfort zone for years. Their premise is that many people don’t move ahead in life with their dreams, because they are afraid to leave what they are use to, what they are familiar with, what has been called… the comfort zone. But is the zone that they
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Virtual Gastric Bypass V.S. Surgical Gastric Bypass
Many of the weight loss referrals that I receive in my hypnotherapy practice in Atlanta Georgia, come from surgeons that have performed gastric band bypass surgery on patients that have then regained their lost weight after the surgery. The majority of the patients that have undergone this potentially dangerous procedure that requires general anesthesia, have
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Celebratory eating… or are you deliberately trying to sabotage yourself?
It’s my birthday! It’s your birthday! It’s Friday! I’m on vacation! It’s a picnic! It’s Thanksgiving! It’s Christmas! Okay, just one small piece. What was I supposed to do? I couldn’t be rude, it was a baby shower. What was I supposed to do? I couldn’t be rude, it was a wedding. What was I
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Multi-tasking or Conflict-tasking?
I get a steady stream of both children and adults with their presenting complaints being ADD. Some are unaware that in many cases their own actions have brought the ADD syndrome on. Others feel that their (ability?) to multitask is cool and have not yet connected multitasking with their inability to focus and to stay
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Stress, sickness and syndromes.
Early man didn’t connect childbirth with sex because the birth of the offspring came so long after the sex act that they weren’t connected. Modern man doesn’t connect the debilitating stress load he’s carrying to heart attacks, strokes, syndromes including IBS (irritable bowel syndrome), chronic fatigue syndrome, cystic fibrosis, PTSS (post traumatic stress syndrome), fibromyalgia
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The mind and its modes.
Our mind is like an exquisitely designed automatic transmission shifting smoothly from Delta (deep sleep) to Beta (the highest level of awareness) or from the subconscious levels; delta, theta and alpha to the conscious level – beta in seamlessly. Unfortunately, some people treat their minds much like they could a manual transmission, forcing their mind
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Embarrased to be in sales?
I'm amazed at the number of people in sales, that are embarrassed to be in sales. They refer to themselves as advocates, as advisers, as counselors, as consultants, as account managers - as anything but a salesman. There is an old and true adage - "nothing happens unless somebody sells something." That being the case, isn’t being a
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Reclaim your brain with hypnosis!
The pre frontal cortex is the part of the brain that has been attributed to positive attitudes, optimism, the ability to solve problems, and where one makes executive decisions and derives their cognitive functioning abilities. Reasoning, problem solving, planning complex cognitive behaviors and personality expression originate here. If you are a high functioning individual you
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Mental Fibrillation!
When the mind can’t solve problems unless it’s organic, it’s because the imagination is underdeveloped hence the creativity has little to work with. We all have two minds, the conscious mind which is where we find our math, verbal and linear skills, and the 90% more powerful, subconscious mind. It’s in our subconscious mind where